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Particulars of the Amesbury Estate, in the parish of Amesbury, in the county of Wilts; comprising the manors of Amesbury Earls and Amesbury Priors; with the manors of Dawbneys and Souths, Combs Court & Countess Court; including an extensive fishery on the river Avon: together with the mansion of Amesbury Abbey, and upwards of five thousand one hundred acres of freehold land, on which Stonehenge, and other remarkable antiquities are situated. ...

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AMESBURY ESTATEParticulars of the Amesbury Estate, in the parish of Amesbury, in the county of Wilts; comprising the manors of Amesbury Earls and Amesbury Priors; with the manors of Dawbneys and Souths, Combs Court & Countess Court; including an extensive fishery on the river Avon: together with the mansion of Amesbury Abbey, and upwards of five thousand one hundred acres of freehold land, on which Stonehenge, and other remarkable antiquities are situated. ...
London: C.H. Reynell, printer, [1812?].
22, [2] p. ; 33.2 cm. (2º)

Final leaf is blank. The document is undated but reference is made to extant leases dated 'for a term of Fourteen Years from the 11th October, 1809', and tythes 'held by Lease for Twenty-one years from Michaelmas, 1810'. Watermark dated '1812'.

Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on lower wrapper (p. [24]) Amesbury Estate. Upper right corner of title-page inscribed in pencil 25. Bound first in a collection of estate particulars.

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